KDs are designed/developed/inspired/mused/auto-suggested/indigested to make folks think; an especially uncommon experience among Democrats, Republicans, and jingoistic mainline denominationalists who continue to discourage dissent with their ever-threatening thought police.

Friday, September 25, 2015

Just deciding to
go ZZ Top, Duck Dynasty, and semi-Nazirite, they came to mind.

Knowing their
spat will enable others to comment on how others look, as if those speck-inspecting and
self-righteous-navel-gazing kinda people need any encouragement to be
judgmental from standards coming from anyone/anywhere but Jesus by the book,
I'm ready in a Biblical kinda
way to let 'er grow and ignore the ignorant and rude.

Besides, ever
since Borg was shorn, somebody's gotta put down the scissors.

@#$%

My sister is an
entrepreneurial hair stylist in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Now I've had
facial hair since about second grade; and about a decade or so ago, my sister
said, "Bobby, you're bald! Deal with it! You look like your
head's upside down! Either shave off your facial hair or cut it down to a
goat or something!"

I did.

And now I'm goin'
ZZ Top, DD, and semi-Nazirite.

I expect scorn
but I will not be shorn because I don't...

If you're one of
those entitled folks mentioned above, you can/will be the judge.

@#$%

Annnnnnnd I do not care
what others wear or how they dye or comb or cut or don't cut their hair or
how much ink they put on their bods.

There are so many
quotes about Him carrying more about what's in the heart than on the...

If you don't know
that, bone up!

Really, it's
kinda sad when people who say they know God don't even know what God has said.

You know, maybe
you don't if you haven't been reading, we'd have a lot less arguments in these
little religious clubs aka franchises aka denominations about, uh,
"issues" if folks would just get acquainted with what God's already
concluded for us about 'em in Jesus by the book confirmed by common sense.

@#$%

Getting back to
face time, I think of people - and I think God thinks this way because I've
been reading the book and especially paying more and more and more attention to
the red letters - as snowflakes.

Every snowflake
is unique and beautiful in its/His own way as created by God who creates
everybody unique and beautiful in their/His own way.

Have you ever
read about that imago Dei stuff
in Genesis?

Do it!

Then you won't be
like Donald on Carly and people like Donald on their Carlys as if they have any
divine right to...

Simply, let's say
divinely, everybody's
beautiful in her or his own way by
design.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Lies

Dr. James I. McCord, President of Princeton Theological
Seminary from 1959–1983 and President of the World Alliance of Reformed
Churches, went home to Jesus in 1990.

Our Lord shared many blessings of knowledge
and wisdom through him; and I will never forget what he said about ministry,
stewardship, and lying.

During the 1976 General Assembly of United
Presbyterians in Baltimore, Maryland, Dr. McCord challenged five young
seminarians on the fifth floor of the Hilton Hotel: “Do something for Christ’s
sake!I don’t care if you succeed or
fail.Just do something for Christ’s
sake!”

He often recalled the woman who complained to
him after a sermon: “All you ever talk about when you preach is money.All I ever hear from you is, ‘Give, give,
give.’He responded, “Have you ever
heard of a better definition of Christianity than give, give, give?”

He told us, “Never lie!You don’t have to reveal everything that you
know or think.But never lie.You can tell people that it’s none of their
business or that you’re not comfortable talking about it now or that you may
talk about it at a later date or that you may never talk about it.But never lie!”

Actually, those cherished memories are all
about telling the truth.

Truly, truly, truly, we love God by loving
like Jesus according to the book or doing something for Christ’s sake and
we give in gratitude for what/who He gave (see John 3:16-17) and Jesus said the
father/source/starter of all lies is satanos: “He was a murderer from the
beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in
him.When he lies, he speaks out of his
own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (see John 8:39ff).

So now you know the inspiration and kinship
of liars.

People who love Jesus by the book are
dedicated to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Back on February 3, 1980 in Woodstown, New
Jersey, my buddy Paul Watermulder told Cub Scouts, “Lying is out.Little lies, half-truths, and pretend stories
are out.They will not make you happy,
because God does not like them.No
matter how much it hurts, God likes the truth best.”

I think of the mother who asked Dwight L.
Moody how she could help her children to stop fibbing.Moody answered, “Start calling them lies.”

John Calvin linked lying with the 9th
commandment (“You shall not bear false witness!”) and said breaking it was
“evilspeaking.”

He wrote, “To sum up: let us not malign
anyone with slanders or false charges, nor harm his substance by falsehood, in
short, injure him by unbridled evilspeaking…hateful accusations arising from
evil intent and wanton desire to defame.”

Monday, September 21, 2015

When I served as
a league representative, VP, and P of Rock Valley [Junior] Tackle Football, I
learned a few things.

It won't be too
long before parents and fans are banned from attending games.

Mommies and
daddies hate coaches who don't recognize their babies on the bench are the
next Walter Payton or Lawrence Taylor.

Referees are
always against "our" team.

Maybe that's why
I like to sit in the press box these days as a Bucs sports correspondent for
the BDR.

Truth is the
overwhelming majority of sports officials, except for those unfit basketball
and football ones who can't keep up with the plays anymore and have to make
calls about fifty yards from the action, do an exemplary job of keeping
the rules so our athletic contests don't turn into a circus of savages.

In my lengthy
experience with RV[J]TF football and as an avid/addicted fan for longer than
Pete Girardin has been alive, I've concluded there are more problems with
parents and fans than officials and coaches.

I've concluded,
with few exceptions, officials and coaches do a much better job at their jobs
than too many parents and fans do at theirs.

Baptismal
promises come to mind.

O.K., most
parents and fans are fine; but I've learned there are more miscreants among
parents and fans than officials and coaches when it comes to sports; and those
miscreants are close to ruining "games" for the, uh, players.

Everybody would
benefit from reviewing the red letters in the big rule book.

Anyway, I've also
discovered some interesting parallels between pastors and 'em; and you can
interpret the preceding video for yourself.

@#$%

1. Go back to the
video and interpret it in its multi-layered meanings.

2.
Thankless! When's the last time that anybody threw an appreciation
day, night, or month for 'em?

3. Everybody
second-guesses sports officials and pastors; but I like Moody's retort to
someone who bantered and moaned about how he did things: "I prefer how I
do it to how you don't do it!"